Zadie Smith Quotes
For ridding oneself of faith is like boiling seawater to retrieve the salt--something is gained but something is lost.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
-
Bush already gave obscene tax breaks to people like me and Warren Buffet, and we are saying it's not fair.
-
My stepfather was quite into opera, but he'd play it when he was in a bad mood, so you'd hear this boom through the floor, Wagner, and you'd feel nervous.
-
A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.
-
The utilization of flat roofs as 'grounds' offers us a means of re-acclimatizing nature amidst the stony deserts of our great towns; for the plots from which she has been evicted to make room for buildings can be given back to her up aloft.
-
In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.
-
The mood of the 80s - Get what you can, can what you get, and sit on the can.
-
Let me be the first to say I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that 'no' meant 'no,' but that's it.
-
Well, put it like this, if you're not a kid, you're a wizard.
-
You know, it's always good to have seen a track before, just to kind of know where the little bumps are here and there, and just the general feel for the size.
-
If I leave this sport, I think life will stop.
-
Whoever comes to me finds me a mirror to whatever is in his heart. Thus, I try to help him to see qualities in himself that he needs to overcome.
-
What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
-
I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
-
I think every business, really, has a unique reason for being, unique assets, unique attributes, a unique history. And that can be turned into a very attractive design story, essentially, that consumers can relate to.
-
I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were.
-
When people say I have become a celebrity, I remind them of fame's flip side. For instance, if I want to watch a movie in a cinema, I have to enter through a side exit just before the film begins and leave by the same exit before the credits roll.
-
Stealing is stealing. I don't care if it's on the Internet or you're breaking into a warehouse somewhere - it's theft.
-
What happened to Haiti is a threat that could happen anywhere in the Caribbean to these island nations, you know, because of global warming, because of climate change and all this.
-
Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.
-
A lot of companies have nice-sounding cultural values like integrity, respect, and excellence, but if those values don't map to specific behaviors, then they quickly get lost. Instead, we see what's called a 'halo effect' where leaders tend to overvalue certain attributes and undervalue others.
-
Ted Geisel was trying to make a statement about awareness and personal responsibility. He was very clear about that. But the ideas and themes in 'The Lorax' go beyond a love of trees. It's also a story about the dangers of greed and the power of redemption. That's what makes it a timeless tale.
-
For ridding oneself of faith is like boiling seawater to retrieve the salt--something is gained but something is lost.
